#taking screenshots

[simandy]

The 36 files... they're done 😳

[izayoichan]

Sometimes, Hayle will outright ask Chris to play for him. After all this years he is still a little shy to do so, even if he knows the only time he will get a no is if he has work.  This time it was not such a day.  🎶

[fablecoingolf]

hfjkfhgkk

[countesscuriosity]

Sugar obsessed with antis

This is a screenshot I found on a sugar blog, which I found because she called @regalenglishrose racist on regal’s blog. 

You know what I find fascinating? How sugars will obsessively read opinions of people they do not agree with, taking screenshots and discussing it, and even dedicating their blogs to talking about “tinhats”. (There’s more than one of that kind.) It’s almost as if they are completely unaware that people have differing opinions and interpretations of the actions of other humans, and that’s... how the world works.

[Eg: Person A thinks Person B is being friendly, and person C thinks person B was flirting. Similarly, person A thinks person B (in another scenario) is being rude, but person C thinks person B was being matter-of-fact.]

And curious that sugars should accuse antiMM’s of not being self aware, but they themselves are completely “un self-aware” themselves, ignoring their own biases and twisting themselves into pretzels to justify things that MM does. Eg. This was a comment about MM's chain link VB dress for the Commonwelath servics. I don’t think of it as a chain, I think of it as “links” and it’s a pretty powerful imagery of links between Commonwealth countries - I’m paraphrasing, but this was the ridiculous comment I read as an argument. Not on their own thread mind you. On one of the threads of a Kate fan. Yes, they like to come to other blogs and make a case for their fav. Pretty desperate IMO. 

Sugars really do love to come to other people’s blogs and try to prove them wrong, and obsess of what “tinhats” say. That is the effect our opinions have on them. I will never really not find this kind of fascinating. If someone whote a college paper about it I’d read the whole thing. 

 In the words of sugars themselves..

[xxilovemyfridgexx]

Instead of studying for my science quiz tomorrow, I do this.

.... Klance will forever be number #1 in my heart.

[warlorddoom991]

Chroma Prime is the most Badass Looking Warframe in the whole Game. 

[guacameowle]

God bless whoever made sure we got Mitsunari in his formal robes set against multiple backgrounds, with practically every facial expression in his repertoire, because he is a beautiful sight to behold & not showing him in multi-scenery glory would have been an absolute sin.

[pictureamoebae]

Hi! I'm just in love with your screenshots! How do u do that? I mean why are they so high qualitative??? What do u use? Something like Fraps or maybe you just push Prt Screen?

Hi anon, what a lovely message to receive, thank you <3

There are a couple of things I use for my screenshots.

First, I use ReShade, which lets you control all sorts of colour correction, lighting, sharpness, etc. It’s like Photoshop actions but right in the game while you’re playing, and you can edit it whenever you want. I’m currently using my own Hazy Days and Blueberryade preset, which has been tweaked a bit since this release for Selavdorada. When you use ReShade you can’t use the game’s own screenshot function anymore because it won’t capture the effects. Handily, ReShade comes with its own, which is indeed Printscreen.

Second, I use SRWE. It stands for Simple Runtime Window Editor, and it’s a small program that lets you control the size and shape of the game window. So, if I want to take a square shot, I don’t have to crop it in Photoshop or Gimp afterwards, I can set the window to 1440x1440 (that’s an example; my monitor is 2560x1440 so 1440x1440 fits on my screen) and compose the shot without having to wonder which parts I’ll crop out later. But the real magic comes after that. Once I’ve set up the shot, I can use SRWE to change the size of that square window to even bigger, to something like 4000x4000. When I do that it doesn’t fit on my screen anymore, but that doesn’t matter because I’ve already composed the shot so I don’t need to see everything. Then I can take the screenshot, and use SRWE to shrink the window back down to normal again. The screenshot I just took will be 4000x4000, which gives the image a TON more pixels and information to display than normal, and that’s what has the biggest effect on the quality of a picture. You know how 4K and 5K monitors are super sharp and really beautiful? It’s just like that, but just for the resulting screenshot and without having to invest in an expensive monitor. It’s called ‘hotsampling’, which is like downsampling on the fly.

I wrote a tutorial about using SRWE here: you’ll notice it uses Mass Effect: Andromeda as the example, but every step is still the same–SRWE works in lots of games (not all) and the basic rules apply across them.